Your Evening Jemmy

Conceiving that an individual independence of the
States is utterly irreconcileable with their aggregate sovereignty;
and that a consolidation of the whole into one simple
republic would be as inexpedient as it is unattainable,
I have sought for some middle ground, which may at once
support a due supremacy of the national authority, and
not exclude the local authorities wherever they can be subordinately
useful.